Surf Life Saving NSW

Surf Life Saving New South Wales engaged Digital Garden for a new website design and development into a Drupal CMS framework. The mission of the project was to bring an intuitive digital experience into the hands of beachgoers with a bold, responsive, accessible website.

The key aims of the project, as stated by SLSNSW, included:

More control over adding content to the website through a CMS that needed no development input or assistance ongoing

Our producer Paul and the whole Digital Garden team loved working with Surf Life Saving NSW. A professional, collaborative and easy-going client open to new ideas and approaches that, we feel, made for a fantastic new digital solution.

Accessible for all Australians

An important feature of the project, as it is with many not-for-profit, community groups and government agencies, is that the website built adhered to acccessibility AA compliance standards.

Accessibility ensures that users of varying abilities, such as those with vision impairments or other disabilities, can use the website with relative ease. This includes high contrasting colours, code markup that is screen-reader device friendly and clear, clean text without distracting imagery or colours in the background.

Surf Life Saving NSW also commissioned one of Australia's leading accessibility agencies to access the build as we progressed. The interactive prototype, UI design components and the developed staging site were shared.

The returned audit from the accessibility agency highlighted any issues that needed modification, which our developers adjusted accordingly - ensuring a highly accessible site was launched for SLSNSW.